PubMed Updates

The latest National Library of Medicine Technical Bulletin announces that the 2010 PubMed system will be available in mid-December, lists a few end of the year PubMed changes, and announces that in early 2010 the Advanced Search feature of PubMed will be re-worked to improve search capabilities. Learn more...

ebrary access interruption Monday Nov. 30

ebrary will be deploying a new system release Monday Nov. 30 from 7:00-8:00 PM CST. Service may be unavailable. New & enhanced features include notes editing in QuickView and Add to Bookshelf button in search results.

Cardiac Science Notifies AED Customers of Nationwide Voluntary Medical Device Correction

Bothell, WA – November 13, 2009 – Cardiac Science Corporation [NASDAQ: CSCX] is initiating a voluntary field correction after it was determined certain automated external defibrillators (AEDs) may experience a rare product issue in which the AED may not be able to deliver therapy during a resuscitation attempt. Learn more...

Featured Book - Atlas of Breast Surgical Techniques

The Atlas of Breast Surgical Techniques, edited by V. Suzanne Klimberg, MD, of UAMS presents state-of-the-art visual guidance on today's full range of breast surgery techniques. In this title, esteemed international contributors offer you expert step-by-step advice on a wide array of surgical procedures, including the newest ablative and reconstructive approaches, to help you expand your repertoire and hone your operative skills. Color surgical photos, biopsy specimens, and artists' renderings of key anatomy show you what to look for and how to proceed; and online access at expertconsult.com allows you to consult the book from any computer and watch surgical videos demonstrating how to execute key aspects of many procedures.

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Atlas of Breast Surgical Techniques/editor, V. Suzanne Klimberg.

Surgical Techniques Atlas Series.

(Currently on New Book Shelf)

PubMed and RSS Feed Readers

PubMed now produces RSS feeds for ongoing personalized searches. This is a great way to stay informed with comprehensive literature searches. Learn how to set it up...

In order to view these feeds you will need a feed reader or aggregator. Feed readers collect RSS feeds from many sites and present fresh site content on single page. Microsoft Outlook, Bloglines, and Google Reader are all great RSS feed readers.

Update on APA 6th Edition Style Corrections

The American Psychological Association (APA) has posted a corrections summary, Corrections to the First Printing of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, Sixth Edition (July 2009), which is more exhaustive and easier to use than the original summary on the web. This document notes all the known errors in the Manual and puts them in some context.
Learn more....

Friday@Noon: Copyright Primer for the Nonlawyer

Friday, October 23, 2009
Noon - 1:00PM
COPH G230

Presented by: Harold Evans, Intellectual Property Attorney, Williams & Anderson, PLC

1. What is copyright?
2. What does copyright protect?
3. How long does copyright last?
4. What are the rights of authors?
5. What are the rights of users that limit the rights of copyright owners?
6. What is fair use?
7. What is the extent of liability for copyright infringement?

Brought to you by the Teaching with Technology Committee

NIH Grant Application Changes

NIH is making numerous major changes to its grant application and review processes. A number of important changes affect grant applications due on or after January 25, 2010. To better understand the new requirements, the Enhancing Peer Review Website has a page dedicated to the application changes and has made available to you a number of resources on the Training and Communications Resources page. This website will continue to be updated with additional resources as they are developed.
Learn more...

Note to APA Style Community: Sixth Edition Corrections

From Mary Lynn Skutley of APA, posted on the APA Style Blog:

We are grateful for the lively and thoughtful discussion that has resulted from the release of the sixth edition of the Publication Manual on this blog and also among other APA Style communities. We recently learned of a post on a listserv regarding corrections to the manual that has caused much alarm among members of the APA Style community and, despite good intentions, includes misleading and erroneous information. We would like to clarify the nature and extent of the errors in the sixth edition and tell you how you can access the corrections online.
Learn more....

Featured Book - MRSA and Stapholococcal Infections

The Library will be featuring an item from each month's new book book list. This month's featured item is the book MRSA and Staphylococcal Infections by Hernan R. Chang.

"Despite the large amount of information available through books, Internet sites, and libraries, more and more people with staphylococcal and MRSA infections present to their primary care physicians offices, urgent care centers, and emergency rooms. The disease seems to continue to spread. Most people with history of MRSA colonization get a reassuring answer when they ask about their contagiousness. The plain truth is that they are potentially contagious. In order to understand the magnitude of this epidemic and to realize how the appearance of MRSA has and will influence our lives and our culture, consider the classic handshake. The handshake will never again me the same after MRSA. The information presented in this book is intended to provide general understanding of MRSA and Staphylococcal infections." - Amazon product description.

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Chang, Hernan R.
MRSA and Staphylococcal Infections
2nd ed. [Jacksonville, Fla.]: H.R. Chang, c2008

Find this book and other timely new UAMS Library titles listed in New Books http://www.library.uams.edu/newsletter/newbooks.aspx

Heparin Products Alert

FDA Alert: New USP Standards for Heparin Products Will Result in Decreased Potency
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration today alerted health care professionals to a change in heparin manufacturing that is expected to decrease the potency of the common anti-clotting drug. (10-1-09).
Learn more ...

Science Translational Medicine

Trial Access to Science Translational Medicine from AAAS/Science
The UAMS Library is participating in a 90 day trial for Science Translational Medicine, beginning with the first issue on October 7 and ending December 23.
Learn more...

New PubMed Interface Now Available in Beta Version

NCBI has released the new PubMed interface in Beta version for testing. The main changes are navigational and do not affect the main functionality behind the scenes. Please try out the new interface and then use the feedback buttons to send NLM comments about things you do and don’t like. Below are just a few tips on the new layout.

• Limits and Details are only available in the Advance Search mode.
• Only 5 lines (search sets) of your strategy will show. You have to click a More History button to see the whole thing if you have an extensive strategy.
• Links to the MeSH database only show on the main page (at the middle - right under More Resources) and on the Advanced Search page (at the bottom under More Resources).

The preview of the redesigned PubMed is now available as a link from PubMed’s homepage or the direct URL is: http://preview.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed.

Update: PubMed's beta site is now fully live (11/23/09)

Medscape - WebMD's Free iPhone App

Use Medscape from WebMD's FREE iPhone App to:

Look up DRUG INFORMATION for over 6,000 generics and brands; plus, information on over-the-counter medications, herbals, and supplements,

Adult dosing, pediatric dosing, adverse effects, cautions, brand/cost information, and more,

Check for DRUG INTERACTIONS for up to 30 drugs, herbals, or supplements at once,

Access DIRECTORY LISTINGS for over 450,000 physicians, pharmacies and hospitals,

Listings include directions and a map,

Read the latest medical news in 30 specialty areas to keep up-to-date.

Learn more...

Arkansas Go Local

Arkansas Go Local collects information on health services from all 75 counties in Arkansas. It includes information on organizations, agencies, or groups that provide social, educational, health and human services. Examples include state and local health departments, medical centers and clinics, nursing homes, pharmacies, health care equipment providers, libraries, local voluntary health agency chapters, and support groups by location or type of service. Search the database by location or type of service. Find out more...

Friday@Noon: What's New in Wimba Classroom 6.0?

Friday, October 2, 2009
Noon - 1pm
COPH G230

Presented by Keith Freeman, Office of Educational Development

Many instructors consider live, personal interaction to be the most valuable element of teaching and learning. Wimba Classroom allows educators and students to build relationships by combining interactive technologies with instructional best practices.

Educators and students can engage in verbal and nonverbal communication to increase psychological closeness among learners. Designed exclusively for education, Wimba Classroom focuses attention on the content and speaker, not on the technology.

This session will cover:
--Do More with your MP4 – Easily create and distribute MP4 files to an iPhone, Blackboard, YouTube or even Facebook so students can access content anytime, anyplace.
--Lecture Capture – Capturing classroom activity and making it available for review and reuse strengthens student comprehension. Record the audio, video, chat, whiteboard or simply capture the traditional offline lecture environment.

Brought to you by the Teaching with Technology Committee

ADH Flu Clinic Sites Throughout Arkansas

Just in from the Arkansas Department of Health.
This information might be useful for students and their families.

Seasonal Mass Flu Clinic Sites - PDF (added 09.24.09)
If you do not find the date, location or time for the mass clinic in your county, please keep checking this site. Information will be updated as details become available.

School Clinic Sites - PDF (added 09.24.09)

For more information on flu, call the ADH hotline at 1-800-651-3493

EBM Flu Information

Due to the global outbreak of Pandemic H1N1 Influenza and concerns about the 2009/2010 flu season, EBSCO Publishing (EBSCO) and our medical and nursing editors, for such resources as DynaMed™, Nursing Reference Center™ and Patient Education Reference Center™, have made the pertinent influenza information from these resources available for free to health care providers worldwide. This site includes more than 50 evidence-based topics including patient education information in 17 languages. It has sections for Clinicians, Nurses and Patients.

http://www.ebscohost.com/flu/

Finding and Evaluating Health Information

Have you ever been curious how medical librarians find and evaluate health information? The Medical Library Association has "A User's Guide to Finding and Evaluating Health Information on the Web."

Here is an excerpt...

Introduction

Millions of Americans search for health information on the web every year. Whether the health information is needed for personal reasons or for a loved one, millions of health-related web pages are viewed by millions of consumers. Sometimes the information found is just what was needed. Other searches end in frustration or retrieval of inaccurate, even dangerous, information.

This guide outlines the collective wisdom of medical librarians who surf the web every day to discover quality information in support of clinical and scientific decision making by doctors, scientists, and other health practitioners responsible for the nation's health. This guide is supported by the Medical Library Association (MLA), the library organization whose primary purpose is promoting quality information for improved health and whose members were the first to realize that not all health information on the web is credible, timely, or safe.

The guide is presented in three brief sections. The first section, "Getting Started," provides tips on filtering the millions of health-related web pages through the health subsets of major search engines and using quality electronic finding tools developed by the U.S. government to do an initial screen of websites for further examination. This section is followed by a set of guidelines developed for evaluating the content of health-related websites. The final section provides additional information of interest to consumers searching for health-related information on the web.

Instructional Resources for Freshman Medical Students
Looking for help with Gross Anatomy, Histology, or Biochemistry? The Learning Resource Center is the place to go! Check out these resources available in the LRC
http://www.library.uams.edu/lrc/#R

Top 10 Apps for Students

Macworld has a nice article on back to school related iPhone apps for students. If you are already using medical and health related apps like Epocrates and Diagnosaurus, you may like to look at our own top 10 list.

Check out Macworld's Ten essential back-to-school iPhone apps article.

Alert on eJournals links

Starting at 8:00 PM CDT on Friday July 31, the library's eJournals list & links will not be available. The vendor is doing system upgrades. In searches from databases such as PubMed, Ebsco's PsychINFO, etc. the "Check for UAMS Full Text" icon links will not work. The downtime may last six (6) hours. PDF or full text links that are part of a citation will not be affected.

informaworld journals unavailable

Alert: informaworld journals (includes Taylor & Francis, Haworth) will be unavailable Friday April 10, 6:00 p.m. until Saturday April 11, 2:00 a.m.

some ejournals not available Sat-Sun March 7, 8

ScienceDirect is doing maintenance from 5:00 pm CST Sat March 7 until about 6:30 am CDT Sunday March 8. We expect that those ejournals will not be available.

Probable interruptions to Wiley InterScience journals Sat. Feb.7

Wiley InterScience is doing maintenance on Saturday, Feb. 7 starting at 8:00 a.m. CST and may last up to 12 hours. There probably will be significant interruptions in service.

Possible interruptions - EbscoHost databases Jan. 31-Feb.1

Ebsco is performing database maintenance this weekend, Jan. 31-Feb. 1, 2009. Service may be interrupted. A few of the library's Ebsco databases are CINAHL Plus, PsycINFO, SocINDEX, and ERIC.

ebrary service interruptions Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2009

ebrary will be doing their monthly maintenance Tuesday Jan. 20 from 8 p.m. - 9 p.m. CT. Access to ebrary books may be intermittent.